SamHain returns and takes over the Ghostbusters Firehouse but there is a far greater threat in this episode: The Junior Ghostbusters! phelous.com / phelous
Hiiii Phelous, I'm a representative from Q5. 🙂 Just saw the review and have a few notes here, nothing too drastic. 1) You referred to Slimer as a "dead guy." 😏 Yeeeahhh, you can't use the "d-word" when talking about a kids cartoon about ghosts. How about calling him a funny, cute monster? 2) Rather than mentioning that the Junior Ghostbusters suck, could you instead say how cool you thought they were when you were a kid because they were so relatable? 😊 3) Last note, we're gonna need you to laugh a lot harder, or at all, at Coulier-Venkman's jokes to show the audience how funny you think he is. 🤣 Thaaaanks Phelous, I really think this will save your review. 😉 Oh, also please cut out those scenes of the show's writers criticizing the changes we made; could be a bad image. 😎
Hey Q5, we have the spirit of Lorenzo Music's Peter and Laura Summers Janine on the line here. They said they found the harddrives, and what Q5 kept on them, and are finally coming after you for it.
Child characters as the main characters in animation _can_ work... You know, when they’re done _well_ or were _already_ the main characters and weren’t just added in for the sake of it!
It's sad how the "Don't ask me. I'm just a girl" line fits for Q5 Jeanine. As for the Junior Ghostbusters, I am shocked that they didn't take off. They were such fun and interesting characters and 1 of the many ideas thatQ5 had for fixing the show. . .from being good.
Fun fact: one of the writers mentions that q5 had ties to the RAND corporation, which developed the theory of mutual destruction and other nuclear war related studies. So in a way, q5 really was the end of the world
Yeah, I've never understood why shows decided to add kids. NOBODY wanted that, I wanted to be Egon! I had friends who wanted to be Peter, Ray and Winston!
If I had the time and skills, I'd draw a comic of Real Peter trading places with Dumb Peter. I can only imagine how hard the stupid will make him snap. Also that first Janine line just... it just hurt to hear
“... or do these little idiots think that anytime something blows the air around their room, it’s a ghost?!” Sounds like every CZcams “paranormal” channel ever.
No. The Simpsons had clean lines and wasn't focused on babies. Rugrats was a very ugly show by character / setting design and was. I don't understand how you're assuming my logic works.
I felt the Jr. Ghostbusters were used properly in The Bogeyman Is Back episode since it was really an episode about Egon's fears and how he progressed from fright to fight.
Is it sad that when Phelan said he was surprised they didn't turn the proton beans into carebear stares that made everyone friends... I actually thought he was about to cut to them doing exactly that?
@@kevlarvest7375 Presumably, they never settled on a decision. Slimer just got so angry that a guy didn't like a steak that he made, that he had a heart attack right there.
''We're the Junior Ghostbusters and we're not a afraid of no ghost!'' Ugh! Their utter failure to actually say that IN UNISON makes it even more painful to listen to.
There were things they could have done to fix it like cut the lines down so they'd sync better or even better, re-record their lines! I don't care if it would hurt the kid's feelings, this is voice acting. Sometimes retakes are required. But this was when they were clearly out of shits to give and the end result is an embarrassment for everyone involved.
Okay I had to pause it 3 minutes to talk about how much I laughed at that last Winston joke, that was a gem of a joke, man it sucks they ruined Winston, he has some amazing lines.
Samhain: For your foolish belief that -- Wait, didn't you have a different voice before. Egon: Huh? Oh yeah, Lorenzo Music left. Samhain: Awww, he was my favorite. Say, I don't suppose I--- Egon: No!
This is a stupid theory, what if the Junior Ghostbusters ended up being the team for Ghostbusters Xtreme. Either way, good that the Junior Ghostsbusters were never overused, especially compared to Slimer. We still need Fat Grandma and the Real Ghostbusters.
CWDTrixie *Old* *Man:* Now that the Junior Ghostbusters are wet from Slimer's slime, they're completely useless- NAH! Just Kidding! They didn't need to be wet to be useless, because they never had a use at all in this episode! *Eli* *Roth:* Ooh, Slimed!
To be honest, that Slimer costume is hilarious. A ghost disguising himself as a ghost then disguising himself as a human on top of that disguise? Hah. Made me smile, won't lie. Am I in the minority in wanting to see what Slimer looked like as a human? ... wait a minute, that's why they wouldn't show that! He'd look *exactly like Coulier* I just know it!
With all the changes made to Janine, it would have been better if the creators simply wrote her out of the show and replaced her with a different girl. She sounds and acts a lot younger than the original Janine, so she might as well be an 18 year old Ghostbuster trainee.
Masterful use of "Simpsons" clips. And I never really watched this show much as a kid but MY GOD the things you've shown me - Janine's transformation especially - so sad. Her character wasn't perfect, but she had actual personality in the original series. And Lorenzo Music is the narrator of the heart of my childhood. Enough said.
I can’t help but feel bad for Coulier with how often Phelous makes fun of the guy’s portrayal of Venkman. I get where he’s coming from, but I’m also not all that familiar with Coulier, so I don’t know if he deserves it or not.
Coulier kinda does, made a career off a terrible impressions and being obnoxious as possible, hell he tried to force a catch phrase that was recycled from something else.
I didn't watch this for five days because I saw the 1/2 and assumed it was the first part of a review episode and wanted to wait for them both to be uploaded :P
They had to drop the barrier to bring the Junior Ghostbusters inside. If they hadn't gotten captured, the Real Ghostbusters wouldn't have been able to do... whatever it was they did.
This episode is... really painful. But like.. it has some really really nice animation and drawings in it too?? like 13:25 and 16:00. Those look REALLY nice! And that kinda upsets me that the content of the episode isn't better. Also I'm pretty sure the inclusion of child characters and how girls were handled in shows like these is why I, a girl, grew up to dislike female characters in cartoons pretty intensely. Thanks to characters like Webby, that brat in Tale Spin, and basically ALL of this. THANKS Q5!!! YOU MADE ME DISLIKE MY OWN GENDER'S REPRESENTATION!!
I know right? The only girl character I liked in cartoons was Gadget from Chip n Dale, but she was too much of a side character to really make me feel included, ya know. it lowkey fucked me up for some time as i DREAMED about being a boy when I was like, 9, because girls are lame, yanno, they can't be MC, and everything girly is lame as fuck and if you like pink then you're just a fucking joke lmao
it me Rhank Gos, that we have better-written female characters in cartoons like Toph and Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Princess Alura and Pidge in Voltron: Legendary Defenders.
What I find the most hilarious about this, is how exactly your comments in the first few minutes precisely match my own thoughts upon re-watching this episode yesterday for the first time in almost 30 years. I had always remembered this as one of my favorite episodes, or at least one of the more memorable ones from what I considered the second half of the series. However, I could never remember how “sam hain” got out of the containment unit within the first few minutes of the show. Now I see why. I must have immediately completely mentally edited out the junior Ghostbusters and Slimer from this episode. I had no memory of them being in it at all, which basically eliminates the whole first 10 minutes. So in my mind, it jumped right to him getting out of the containment unit. LOL Upon re-watching, this went from one of the episodes I thought that I remembered liking the most, to one I wish I had never seen ever. Another major inconsistency-as if consistency mattered by this point-didn’t we learn in Mrs. Rogers’ Neighborhood, that the containment unit required the voice print of one of the main four guys in order to access the controls? I know they violated this numerous times throughout the series, but in an episode like this, it is even more glaringly a problem than usual. Plus I grew up loving containment unit episodes, as I watched the show initially and primarily because of the pseudoscience and was a huge Egon fan, so this one was particularly painful.
If light is blocked by the shield...how can you still see the stuff behind it? I can't believe it, a physics flub in a kids cartoon. Breakfast is ruined!
After doing some research I found out that this can't be true since the episode shows the light bouncing off. That can only mean one thing, the shield is made of ZAITUN OIL, MY GOD!
The firehouse changing dimensions is fine. In the original movie, Dana's fridge contained Gozer's temple...supernatural stuff changing the shape of shit to fuck with people is common in movies.
Is it weird that I suddenly felt alone when Phelous fake left the review and I was overcome with the momentary sensation that the review was (somehow) running onward without a driver?
Sam Hain: "You didn't actually think you could keep Sam Hain, the spirit of Halloween, locked up forever, did you Ghostbusters?" Fake-Peter: "Well yeah actually we did" Sam Hain: "WHAT TRICKERY IS THIS, WHY DO YOU SOUND LIKE A FOOL NOW?!" Fake-Peter: "Duuuurrrrrrrrrrr!!" *Drools*
I lovw how they're like "they don't want kids to pick up hammers or nails" and all that, but they do want kids to go fight ghosts and goblins that try to kill people. So remember kids, tools are dangerous but paranormal murderers aren't.
If they had turned the proton beams into Ghostbuster Care Stares you'd know exactly how us One Piece fans felt when it was first dubbed by 4K!ds. "Look out, he's shooting poison suction cups at us!".
to be fair 4Kids didn't really want to dub One Piece, Toei pretty much forced them into it as they wouldn't let them dub Ultimate Muscle and Magical DoReMei unless they also agreed to do One Piece.
Human Slimer would probably just be like the End of the What If? Futurama Episode where Bender became human and turned himself into a grotesque human blob.
20:18 Presumably with all the ghosts heading towards the Ghostbusters, Samhain's powers weakened enough for him to drop the shield. This is why he was sucked back into the containment unit so easily. He's pretty powerful on his own, bu having all those ghosts at his disposal makes him that much stronger. Yes, the key stone falling was the unit being opened back up and sucking them all back in. It was sure nice to see the goblins finally get blasted after getting away clean in the first episode.
If Slimer came back to life he’d be John Belushi Like that’s what Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis intended; they told Steve Johnson to basically do an homage to Belushi when sculpting the character. Apparently Johnson did some coke and believed he was visited by Belushis ghost, all for inspiration. The cocaine part sounds exaggerated but I’ve heard Ramis and Ackroyd make mention of Slimer being somewhat based on Belushi
I remember that at the end of the episode, Peter threatens to inflict severe physical bodily harm to the demon if he doesn't let them go. It was really funny.
I agree with him that it's flawed thinking. Even as a kid I never related to kids that were suddenly randomly put into series. If anything they annoyed me.
"... to introduce _Slimer & The Junior Ghostbusters."_ That... could actually have been a decent spinoff idea in order to implement the ideas Q5 shoved into the network executives' heads. Certainly better than destroying The Real Ghostbusters and making that separate Slimer show, and it would mean having the Junior Ghostbusters as lead characters in their own right rather than aggressively intruding on the show that is supposed to be about the Ghostbusters. It's kinda weird they _had_ to make the car body PVC piping. It's probably a better way to make it than with wooden boards (as long as the pipes are fastened properly and not just plugged together), and it looks better, too. I Google Translated some of the Japanese on Egon's diagram of the tower, and it appears there's things like "I have a ghost" (I think labeling the entrance) and "It's good for pumpkin" (labeling the top, maybe where Sam Hain likes to be?) on the first set of labels, some things about colours in the second set of labels, including light blue, blue, dark brown, and red, and the last set of labels has the exclamations "Crazy...!", "YA AHH STOP", "Please!", and "A... I-- feel good!". The labels on the firehouse diagram just after the tower seems to have "I'm glad I'm wrinkled" (I'm guessing one of the words was perhaps spaced incorrectly or had phonetically-written English, because that can't be right, can it?), just "YAAHOOO !!", and "that's it" (queue crumpling paper?). These whimsical margin doodles don't seem like the kind of thing Egon would have written; maybe Ray drew the graphic for him.
thinking back, I think the only time I didn't want to be the main hero of a show would be in Batman because I wanted to be Robin. Just not the kid robin. The adult one that became Nightwing. He's cool. ... did any child sidekick EVER work?
If it helps even Batman TAS had their own version of the junior Ghostbusters but one of them looked like Carrie from the Dark Knight Returns so it was cool.
I have two questions about this episode: 1) Why is it called Halloween 2 and 1/2? 2) What costume are the Real Ghostbusters wearing? Are they all wearing snuggies?
Their basically wearing the Halloween costumes they used when the junior twits came to the firehouse and weren't able to change cloths before Sam Hain took over
Q5 were also the people behind "All-New Pound Puppies", the second season of the Pound Puppies that had various strange-ass changes. I remember them popping up on Boomerang mixed with the season 1 episodes and being confused as hell. I loved the show for some strange reason when I was little and even then I knew that the "All-New" episodes were quite inferior.
It seems the consultants the executives hired to "improve" just pulled their ideas out of their asses, with little or no supporting evidence. But of course the executives believed them, because these consultants had degrees in something, or maybe because they charged a lot of money so they must be good. Dumb.
14:46 I thought the video was going to have them call Captain Planet 19:14 That's not a "keystone" A keystone is the middle supporting stone in an arch and I learnt about a keystone in Primary school/ Kindergarten class on a BBC "Look and Read" educational series. That column is a support column, I believe. I could be wrong about that one.
Those Q5 episodes came out when I was born and my brother would watch the show and I have to admit when I was like just out of the womb I was intimidated by her accent and her glasses and calmed by her alternative persona Sorry about that 😔
Not sure if the writer's wrote the kids absolutely terrible on purpose since they were forced in (probably, but assuming not here), but why do the kids want to go out on adventures and catch ghosts with the Ghostbusters if at least one of them apparently hates doing it? And also doesn't believe that other supernatural things could exist?
Are you kidding? This episode had some fantastic ideas in it! Samhain's restructured firehouse fortress gained its power from the mystical configuration of its shape, people coating themselves with ectoplasm to temporarily allow themselves to ethereally travel through matter. I was 12 when this episode first aired and I loved it, and I still do. The Junior Ghostbusters never bothered me at all, because OF COURSE the Ghostbusters would have fanclubs of nerdy kids all over the place wanting to emulate them. That was true in real life! It wasn't like the Ghostbusters took them out on jobs with them, they were just a fanclub that was lucky enough to be local so the guys kind of adopted them as mascots.
But children wanted to like grow up to be Peter, Winston, Egon or Ray. Not a fan club of cartoon children. You’re probably in the minority with this take, mate
I'd absolutely love a whole episode of Phelan just overdubbing Coulier Venkman's voice. That gets me every time
I would love an episode of Phelan overdubbing Coulier Venkman's voice on a Garfield episode "Aww, cut it out Odie!" lmao!
I love when you do Samhain's voice. Not gonna lie, I'd watch a Real Ghostbusters Abridged series if Phelous was in it.
I would like that as well, maybe I can be a part of the series as Egon, or Peter and some other characters
I'd totally be behind that
Can we make that a thing!?
RGB Redone?
The Real Ghostbusters Abridged with Phelous in a one man show.
The Peter with Homer dialogue almost killed me.
Hiiii Phelous, I'm a representative from Q5. 🙂 Just saw the review and have a few notes here, nothing too drastic. 1) You referred to Slimer as a "dead guy." 😏 Yeeeahhh, you can't use the "d-word" when talking about a kids cartoon about ghosts. How about calling him a funny, cute monster? 2) Rather than mentioning that the Junior Ghostbusters suck, could you instead say how cool you thought they were when you were a kid because they were so relatable? 😊 3) Last note, we're gonna need you to laugh a lot harder, or at all, at Coulier-Venkman's jokes to show the audience how funny you think he is. 🤣 Thaaaanks Phelous, I really think this will save your review. 😉 Oh, also please cut out those scenes of the show's writers criticizing the changes we made; could be a bad image. 😎
captainautobots wow, much sarcasm. I like it
Is the D word DEATH, dear?😜 because everyone must know about it
Hey Q5, we have the spirit of Lorenzo Music's Peter and Laura Summers Janine on the line here. They said they found the harddrives, and what Q5 kept on them, and are finally coming after you for it.
2:23 holy shit this is amazing. "I sold my soul to a minor demon" is now my go-to-line when dealing with the devil.
Child characters as the main characters in animation _can_ work... You know, when they’re done _well_ or were _already_ the main characters and weren’t just added in for the sake of it!
Yeah like Kids next door. Here they’re shoehorned in😅
It's sad how the "Don't ask me. I'm just a girl" line fits for Q5 Jeanine. As for the Junior Ghostbusters, I am shocked that they didn't take off. They were such fun and interesting characters and 1 of the many ideas thatQ5 had for fixing the show. . .from being good.
"I sold my soul to the devil" Sounds like someone has been playing Cuphead
Fun fact: one of the writers mentions that q5 had ties to the RAND corporation, which developed the theory of mutual destruction and other nuclear war related studies. So in a way, q5 really was the end of the world
Ranch Dubois good night dale
13:56 Hearing Peter say that to the kids in a Homer voice; the looks on their faces, like "our hero just insulted us". That's hilarious.
This Janine seems more in love with Slimer than with Egon
I suspect that was the point
Yeah, I've never understood why shows decided to add kids. NOBODY wanted that, I wanted to be Egon! I had friends who wanted to be Peter, Ray and Winston!
Hell MST3K even lampooned the idea of adding kid characters.
If I had the time and skills, I'd draw a comic of Real Peter trading places with Dumb Peter. I can only imagine how hard the stupid will make him snap.
Also that first Janine line just... it just hurt to hear
GreenDiablo what if dumb Peter switched places with Abby?
Last time I was this early, Peter was still voiced by Lorenzo Music.
“... or do these little idiots think that anytime something blows the air around their room, it’s a ghost?!” Sounds like every CZcams “paranormal” channel ever.
"WE GET IT. YOU WANT PEOPLE TO HATE THE SHOW. MOVE ON." Pretty much my reaction to the addition of Kimi to Rugrats.
Rugrats was a poorly-drawn show about babies, it was hate-able enough already.
Better than Doug :D
Master Markus By your logic, The Simpsons was a poorly drawn show and was hate-able.
No. The Simpsons had clean lines and wasn't focused on babies. Rugrats was a very ugly show by character / setting design and was. I don't understand how you're assuming my logic works.
Master Markus Oh yeah, I remember when the Simpsons taught us dumb lessons and wasn't full of swear words. You sir has issues.
Why does Homer!Venkman sound *less* dumb than Coulier!Venkman?
Do you mean Garfield Venkman?
If i had to choose between the Junior ghostbusters, or Zack the 5th turtle; I would ask "Can i get mauled to death by a grizzly bear instead?"
The main difference was, well, TMNT was goofy and really not serious to begin with. But yeah,. both were annoying.
Sorry, the best we can offer you is getting sucker punched by Nic Cage in his bear suit from The Wicker Man remake.
@@koenvandamme6901 hot damn. I’d pay for that!
Who else wants phelous to review the game show in hell episode? Sounds hilarious XD
mokonarose01 I do.
I do 2
Yes he can pretty much review any episode and I will enjoy it.
He should, it's a really good one
Would have made a great Halloween 2018 RGB review, Phelous! (ahem) :)
I felt the Jr. Ghostbusters were used properly in The Bogeyman Is Back episode since it was really an episode about Egon's fears and how he progressed from fright to fight.
@Master Farr The Grundel was the only good episode of that season.
Is it sad that when Phelan said he was surprised they didn't turn the proton beans into carebear stares that made everyone friends... I actually thought he was about to cut to them doing exactly that?
proton beans
I thought Slimer was the ghost of John Belushi?!
MountainFox51 thats what I've heard from a question I asked about the origins of slimmer...who was he as a Man?
@@vineethonkan IDW tried to answer this. Kylie Griffin said he was a chef at the Sedgwick Hotel in the '20s.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer So he was part of DeForrest's crew?
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer You know, that would explain why he was haunting the hotel in the movie and eating their food.
@@kevlarvest7375 Presumably, they never settled on a decision. Slimer just got so angry that a guy didn't like a steak that he made, that he had a heart attack right there.
''We're the Junior Ghostbusters and we're not a afraid of no ghost!''
Ugh! Their utter failure to actually say that IN UNISON makes it even more painful to listen to.
There were things they could have done to fix it like cut the lines down so they'd sync better or even better, re-record their lines! I don't care if it would hurt the kid's feelings, this is voice acting. Sometimes retakes are required. But this was when they were clearly out of shits to give and the end result is an embarrassment for everyone involved.
Okay I had to pause it 3 minutes to talk about how much I laughed at that last Winston joke, that was a gem of a joke, man it sucks they ruined Winston, he has some amazing lines.
Should have been a joke about Samhain noticing Peter had a different voice
Samhain: For your foolish belief that -- Wait, didn't you have a different voice before.
Egon: Huh? Oh yeah, Lorenzo Music left.
Samhain: Awww, he was my favorite. Say, I don't suppose I---
Egon: No!
TheRoflcer yes
TheRoflcer nice zanta claws reference
Were Slimer brought back to life, I guarantee he would be John Belushi; or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
Human Slimer dressed up as Jake Blues would be a pretty amusing visual joke.
This is a stupid theory, what if the Junior Ghostbusters ended up being the team for Ghostbusters Xtreme. Either way, good that the Junior Ghostsbusters were never overused, especially compared to Slimer.
We still need Fat Grandma and the Real Ghostbusters.
CWDTrixie
*Old* *Man:* Now that the Junior Ghostbusters are wet from Slimer's slime, they're completely useless- NAH! Just Kidding! They didn't need to be wet to be useless, because they never had a use at all in this episode!
*Eli* *Roth:* Ooh, Slimed!
Slimer as a human would look like Dave Coulier
17:00 That crash zoom is amazing.
To be honest, that Slimer costume is hilarious. A ghost disguising himself as a ghost then disguising himself as a human on top of that disguise? Hah. Made me smile, won't lie.
Am I in the minority in wanting to see what Slimer looked like as a human? ... wait a minute, that's why they wouldn't show that! He'd look *exactly like Coulier* I just know it!
Pensive Scarlet
I think I remember reading somewhere that Dan Aykroyd thought of him as being “the ghost of John Belushi.”
4:10 Phelan "always wanted to be Peter Venkman". That's okay, Dave Coulier spent five seasons wanting to be Peter Venkman too.
The voice over work you did this time was 100% on point and hilarious. Also, who did cut Egon's hair?
He probably invented some kind of hair-cutting machine
@@TheSeptet Of varying success.
With all the changes made to Janine, it would have been better if the creators simply wrote her out of the show and replaced her with a different girl. She sounds and acts a lot younger than the original Janine, so she might as well be an 18 year old Ghostbuster trainee.
16:27 egon: plan to get back into the firehouse
Coliae Peter: egon, who cut your hair?
Masterful use of "Simpsons" clips.
And I never really watched this show much as a kid but MY GOD the things you've shown me - Janine's transformation especially - so sad. Her character wasn't perfect, but she had actual personality in the original series. And Lorenzo Music is the narrator of the heart of my childhood. Enough said.
13:56
Proof that Dan Castellaneta would probably have been a better choice to play Venkman than Dave Coulier.
DinosaurFan88 Well... He did play Doc Brown in the Back to the Future Animated series...
Wow, I didn't think I'd seen this one before until Slimer slimed the kids, then it all came back. Funny how random memory is sometimes, lol.
Wait... GOBLINS?!
Goblin is nilbog spelled backwards!!!
You don't piss on hospitality... I won't allow it!
pipo berber they're eating her...and then they're gonna eat me..oh my goooooooood
16:04 why is Venckman suddenly sounding like Old Man reading a creepypasta ? 😆
I can’t help but feel bad for Coulier with how often Phelous makes fun of the guy’s portrayal of Venkman. I get where he’s coming from, but I’m also not all that familiar with Coulier, so I don’t know if he deserves it or not.
Phelous only dislikes his portrayal of Peter, mate
Coulier kinda does, made a career off a terrible impressions and being obnoxious as possible, hell he tried to force a catch phrase that was recycled from something else.
@@HughAverageHomoMan not really no
I didn't watch this for five days because I saw the 1/2 and assumed it was the first part of a review episode and wanted to wait for them both to be uploaded :P
They had to drop the barrier to bring the Junior Ghostbusters inside. If they hadn't gotten captured, the Real Ghostbusters wouldn't have been able to do... whatever it was they did.
Is it just me, or did Phelous upload two reviews of The Real Ghostbusters in less than a week?
Oh, Phelous, you really do spoil us!
Lulu Calliope Hope you're not suffering from Jetlag!
If I am, then I'm completely useless now...
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Lulu Calliope Ooh, Heeeeeed!
This episode is... really painful. But like.. it has some really really nice animation and drawings in it too?? like 13:25 and 16:00. Those look REALLY nice! And that kinda upsets me that the content of the episode isn't better.
Also I'm pretty sure the inclusion of child characters and how girls were handled in shows like these is why I, a girl, grew up to dislike female characters in cartoons pretty intensely. Thanks to characters like Webby, that brat in Tale Spin, and basically ALL of this. THANKS Q5!!! YOU MADE ME DISLIKE MY OWN GENDER'S REPRESENTATION!!
I know right? The only girl character I liked in cartoons was Gadget from Chip n Dale, but she was too much of a side character to really make me feel included, ya know. it lowkey fucked me up for some time as i DREAMED about being a boy when I was like, 9, because girls are lame, yanno, they can't be MC, and everything girly is lame as fuck and if you like pink then you're just a fucking joke lmao
Liezl Bohnen What are your thoughts on Webby's character in the Disney XD reboot of Ducktales?
it me Rhank Gos, that we have better-written female characters in cartoons like Toph and Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Princess Alura and Pidge in Voltron: Legendary Defenders.
it me And Mable and Wendy from Gravity Falls.
Liezl Bohnen You poor unfortunate female soul... You need to watch better cartoons with better written female characters.
What I find the most hilarious about this, is how exactly your comments in the first few minutes precisely match my own thoughts upon re-watching this episode yesterday for the first time in almost 30 years.
I had always remembered this as one of my favorite episodes, or at least one of the more memorable ones from what I considered the second half of the series. However, I could never remember how “sam hain” got out of the containment unit within the first few minutes of the show. Now I see why. I must have immediately completely mentally edited out the junior Ghostbusters and Slimer from this episode. I had no memory of them being in it at all, which basically eliminates the whole first 10 minutes. So in my mind, it jumped right to him getting out of the containment unit. LOL
Upon re-watching, this went from one of the episodes I thought that I remembered liking the most, to one I wish I had never seen ever.
Another major inconsistency-as if consistency mattered by this point-didn’t we learn in Mrs. Rogers’ Neighborhood, that the containment unit required the voice print of one of the main four guys in order to access the controls? I know they violated this numerous times throughout the series, but in an episode like this, it is even more glaringly a problem than usual. Plus I grew up loving containment unit episodes, as I watched the show initially and primarily because of the pseudoscience and was a huge Egon fan, so this one was particularly painful.
And yet, despite its flaws, it's still better than Rob Zombie's Halloween II.
Vahan Nisanian Tell me about it.
Despite all its flaws, it’s still better than Ghostbusters Answer the call
@@ghostengineer Any ABC interference episode (as Phelous calls it) is better than that movie. Even the Slimer segments are better than that movie.
@@VahanNisanian I wholeheartedly agree 😂
LOL no you crazy
If light is blocked by the shield...how can you still see the stuff behind it? I can't believe it, a physics flub in a kids cartoon. Breakfast is ruined!
ZhengIsRight my only guess is that it's a 'light-refracting' barrier that disperses any light particle energy. Then again, I am using my brain here.
ZhengIsRight It's Sciiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeennnncccccceeee!
According to Oro.
Science?!? MY GAWD!
He's either living in, or is a singularity
After doing some research I found out that this can't be true since the episode shows the light bouncing off. That can only mean one thing, the shield is made of ZAITUN OIL, MY GOD!
Ah, what a great way to start Halloween! Hilarious as usual, Phelous!
The firehouse changing dimensions is fine. In the original movie, Dana's fridge contained Gozer's temple...supernatural stuff changing the shape of shit to fuck with people is common in movies.
*And here we are just a couple of fluffernutters*
How did you not cut back to that "Not a single one!"-clip when talking about how many funny moments Winston gets in this episode? *0 STARS!*
Poor pumpkin-head, didn't he have eyes last time? Now there's just black holes.
He's seen some things man.
Is it weird that I suddenly felt alone when Phelous fake left the review and I was overcome with the momentary sensation that the review was (somehow) running onward without a driver?
Yes
Sam Hain: "You didn't actually think you could keep Sam Hain, the spirit of Halloween, locked up forever, did you Ghostbusters?"
Fake-Peter: "Well yeah actually we did"
Sam Hain: "WHAT TRICKERY IS THIS, WHY DO YOU SOUND LIKE A FOOL NOW?!"
Fake-Peter: "Duuuurrrrrrrrrrr!!" *Drools*
the animation on samhain in this episode is REALLY GOOD
Has anyone ever thought to just thank Sam Hain for Halloween? how everyone loves the season.
I lovw how they're like "they don't want kids to pick up hammers or nails" and all that, but they do want kids to go fight ghosts and goblins that try to kill people. So remember kids, tools are dangerous but paranormal murderers aren't.
If they had turned the proton beams into Ghostbuster Care Stares you'd know exactly how us One Piece fans felt when it was first dubbed by 4K!ds.
"Look out, he's shooting poison suction cups at us!".
to be fair 4Kids didn't really want to dub One Piece, Toei pretty much forced them into it as they wouldn't let them dub Ultimate Muscle and Magical DoReMei unless they also agreed to do One Piece.
The only episodes I remember are the Cthulhu one and the one where Slimer is lost in the Containment Unit.
Human Slimer would probably just be like the End of the What If? Futurama Episode where Bender became human and turned himself into a grotesque human blob.
20:18 Presumably with all the ghosts heading towards the Ghostbusters, Samhain's powers weakened enough for him to drop the shield. This is why he was sucked back into the containment unit so easily. He's pretty powerful on his own, bu having all those ghosts at his disposal makes him that much stronger.
Yes, the key stone falling was the unit being opened back up and sucking them all back in.
It was sure nice to see the goblins finally get blasted after getting away clean in the first episode.
Interestingly enough, if Slimer were to come back to life the general idea was that he'd look like John Belushi since that's who he was based on.
If Slimer came back to life he’d be John Belushi
Like that’s what Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis intended; they told Steve Johnson to basically do an homage to Belushi when sculpting the character. Apparently Johnson did some coke and believed he was visited by Belushis ghost, all for inspiration.
The cocaine part sounds exaggerated but I’ve heard Ramis and Ackroyd make mention of Slimer being somewhat based on Belushi
Phalous you're awesome, have a blessed day! 😊
2:17 So, the Ghostbusters DID go to Hell.......in the cartoon series no less.
I remember that at the end of the episode, Peter threatens to inflict severe physical bodily harm to the demon if he doesn't let them go. It was really funny.
I loved all the Simpsons references.
Was Q5 ran by Walter Peck?
Yes. He threw the show in his Cyclotron and double-killed it's soul.
I agree with him that it's flawed thinking. Even as a kid I never related to kids that were suddenly randomly put into series. If anything they annoyed me.
Samhain is going senile.
Did you see how the kids were in Stranger Things 2 with arguing on who wanted to be Venkman and how they treated Winston?
Nice job on the 8-bit version of the Cantina Band music from Star Wars.
Holy shit, Homer Simpson make a better peter Peter Venkman than Dave Coulier.
"... to introduce _Slimer & The Junior Ghostbusters."_ That... could actually have been a decent spinoff idea in order to implement the ideas Q5 shoved into the network executives' heads. Certainly better than destroying The Real Ghostbusters and making that separate Slimer show, and it would mean having the Junior Ghostbusters as lead characters in their own right rather than aggressively intruding on the show that is supposed to be about the Ghostbusters.
It's kinda weird they _had_ to make the car body PVC piping. It's probably a better way to make it than with wooden boards (as long as the pipes are fastened properly and not just plugged together), and it looks better, too.
I Google Translated some of the Japanese on Egon's diagram of the tower, and it appears there's things like "I have a ghost" (I think labeling the entrance) and "It's good for pumpkin" (labeling the top, maybe where Sam Hain likes to be?) on the first set of labels, some things about colours in the second set of labels, including light blue, blue, dark brown, and red, and the last set of labels has the exclamations "Crazy...!", "YA AHH STOP", "Please!", and "A... I-- feel good!". The labels on the firehouse diagram just after the tower seems to have "I'm glad I'm wrinkled" (I'm guessing one of the words was perhaps spaced incorrectly or had phonetically-written English, because that can't be right, can it?), just "YAAHOOO !!", and "that's it" (queue crumpling paper?). These whimsical margin doodles don't seem like the kind of thing Egon would have written; maybe Ray drew the graphic for him.
I have sold my soul to a minor demon
Xianos I'd rather do that rather than be with Coulier Venkmann and/or Soucie Janine
OR the junior ghostbusters
If it was Erylium... I can understand. She is a cute one.
I get the feeling that they were coming up with this plot as they went along...
I swear fake Janine has more chemistry with Slimer than Egon
Well now you’ve done it
Rule 34 is inevitable
Halloweenie and Pumpkinweenie Live!
And the eeshole cat, too!
thinking back, I think the only time I didn't want to be the main hero of a show would be in Batman because I wanted to be Robin.
Just not the kid robin. The adult one that became Nightwing. He's cool.
... did any child sidekick EVER work?
Huey, Dewy and Louie from Ducktales.
Granted, their not the most interesting of characters but at least they were extremely necessary to the plots.
If it helps even Batman TAS had their own version of the junior Ghostbusters but one of them looked like Carrie from the Dark Knight Returns so it was cool.
Which is worse: The Jr. Ghostbusters or Zach the Fifth Turtle?
Zach, because the Junior Ghostbusters have less episodes than him.
Sam Hain deserved so much better! Shame he never returned for Extreme.
I have two questions about this episode:
1) Why is it called Halloween 2 and 1/2?
2) What costume are the Real Ghostbusters wearing? Are they all wearing snuggies?
Their basically wearing the Halloween costumes they used when the junior twits came to the firehouse and weren't able to change cloths before Sam Hain took over
They’re wearing Yankets
Note: those aren’t actually THEIR arms you see
Q5 were also the people behind "All-New Pound Puppies", the second season of the Pound Puppies that had various strange-ass changes. I remember them popping up on Boomerang mixed with the season 1 episodes and being confused as hell. I loved the show for some strange reason when I was little and even then I knew that the "All-New" episodes were quite inferior.
Okay but who actually does cut Egon’s hair?
Any time Samhain is brought up, I'm reminded of CR's familiar faces about him.
It seems the consultants the executives hired to "improve" just pulled their ideas out of their asses, with little or no supporting evidence. But of course the executives believed them, because these consultants had degrees in something, or maybe because they charged a lot of money so they must be good. Dumb.
ChristophInns moral of story: people with degrees ruin everything
14:46 I thought the video was going to have them call Captain Planet
19:14 That's not a "keystone" A keystone is the middle supporting stone in an arch and I learnt about a keystone in Primary school/ Kindergarten class on a BBC "Look and Read" educational series. That column is a support column, I believe. I could be wrong about that one.
I do wish the Jr Ghostbusters had been at least some in Extreme Ghostbusters.
why weren't they the ex....... Oh yeah, they didn't want to bring that show up
@@masterfarr8265 Ex referenced RGB twice I think maybe 3 times nd Im not convinced with the same continuity.
Happy Halloween, Old Man! Those apples are wet... They're completely useless now.
Mother Janine pisses me off more than Coulier Venkman.
0 out of 10 not enough Coulier bashing or Troll 2 references. I am much of disappointment, for reals.
And Phelous' Coulier makes him sound like Old Man.
For realie reals?
Honestly I'm kind of glad he dialed back on the Coulier bashing. It left more room to talk about the episode.
Robert Lehto There's only so much you can say about Coulier Venkman.
Would have liked this but that pumpkin's pointy glasses in the background were to scary
Those Q5 episodes came out when I was born and my brother would watch the show and I have to admit when I was like just out of the womb I was intimidated by her accent and her glasses and calmed by her alternative persona
Sorry about that 😔
Who the fuck gives out candy canes for Halloween?
Left over from last Christmas.
16:31... What does that have to do with anything that was just said?
Phelan, I actually wore my Ghostbusters jumpsuit yesterday just like last year.
More Ghostbusters? Phelous you spoil us
Sorry, must be the Q5!
That line honestly sounded like "I knew that sperg detector would come in handy!" at 14:14
Not sure if the writer's wrote the kids absolutely terrible on purpose since they were forced in (probably, but assuming not here), but why do the kids want to go out on adventures and catch ghosts with the Ghostbusters if at least one of them apparently hates doing it? And also doesn't believe that other supernatural things could exist?
Are you kidding? This episode had some fantastic ideas in it! Samhain's restructured firehouse fortress gained its power from the mystical configuration of its shape, people coating themselves with ectoplasm to temporarily allow themselves to ethereally travel through matter. I was 12 when this episode first aired and I loved it, and I still do. The Junior Ghostbusters never bothered me at all, because OF COURSE the Ghostbusters would have fanclubs of nerdy kids all over the place wanting to emulate them. That was true in real life! It wasn't like the Ghostbusters took them out on jobs with them, they were just a fanclub that was lucky enough to be local so the guys kind of adopted them as mascots.
But children wanted to like grow up to be Peter, Winston, Egon or Ray. Not a fan club of cartoon children. You’re probably in the minority with this take, mate
Happy Halloween, Phelous!
I resemble that remark line is from Turtles Forever, isn't it ?